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Starred Study 22
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| he Arabic for "wind" gives us this 2-syllable word for a Sudanese wind that produces violent sandstorms | Haboob |
| The Pyramids of Meroë in modern-day Sudan were built in the land of this 4-letter ancient kingdom | Kush (Nubian around there too) |
| Located on Israel's Mount of Remembrance, this memorial center commemorates the victims & the heroes of the Holocaust | Yad Vashem |
| It refers to the first note of a scale, bringing harmony to a piece of music | tonic |
| It can mean a legal right in English or right in French | Droit (gauche is left) |
| Secretary of State Frank Kellogg & this French minister signed a pact with 13 other nations denouncing war in 1928 | Briand (Kellogg-Briand outlawed war) |
| Bible Book: You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting... or Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" | The phrase "the writing on the wall" originates from the Biblical Book of Daniel (Chapter 5). The original writing was a divine message in Aramaic that foretold the imminent downfall of the Babylonian king Belshazzar. |
| This play takes place at Don's Resale Shop, where the characters plan to steal the title object, worth a lot more than 5 cents | American Buffalo. 1975 play by David Mamet about three small-time crooks in a Chicago junk shop who plot to steal a valuable buffalo nickel, exploring themes of loyalty, greed, and the American Dream through their sharp, profane dialogue. |
| a Pulitzer Prize-winning one-act play about Vivian Bearing, a brilliant but emotionally detached English professor specializing in John Donne, who is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer BY? | Wit, by Margaret Edson |
| play by Paul Zindel is titled "The Effect of Gamma Rays on" these flowers | Man-in-the-moon-Marigolds (movie produced by Paul Newman who cast his wife, Joanne Woodward, and one of their daughters, Nell Potts, in two of the lead roles. _ |
| She was the original Evita on Broadway & originated the role of Norma Desmond in London | Patti Lupone |
| Bombed in 1950 & never rebuilt, the broken bridge over this river allows a glimpse from China into North Kore | Yalu River (Chinese soldiers entered the Korean War in October of 1950 crossing this river in support of North Korea |
| Thailand island called the "Pearl of the South" | Largest island is Phuket |
| Hydrogen was first identified as a distinct element by THIS Nice born Englishman in 1766, who called it "inflammable air," | Cavendish |
| means sunset, the direction of the west, and the optional sunset prayer in Islam | Magrib (Morrocco in its nation) |
| In 1546 the council of this Italian city added Judith, Tobit & other books to the Catholic Bible/ The number of sacraments was set at 7 at the 1540s Council of this place | Council of Trent |
| "fathers of the fatherland", and "Hero of Two Worlds" | Garabaldi |
| Greek word, meaning "wanderer" or "drifter," perfectly describing these tiny organisms that float and drift with ocean currents, unable to swim strongly against them | Plankton |
| This Quaker merchant lends his name to a Baltimore college whose motto is "Veritas vos liberabit" | Johns Hopkins |
| This 20th-century American novel ends with real estate mogul Pierce Inverarity's stamp collection being auctioned off at the title event | The Crying of Lot 49. 1966 novella by Thomas Pynchon about Oedipa Maas, a California housewife entangled in a vast, possibly imaginary, conspiracy involving a secret postal system (the Trystero) after being named executor of her ex-lover's estate. |
| Fashion's "Last Emperor" died January 19, 2026 | Valentino |
| This 1977 work by reporter Michael Herr has been called the best book ever written about the Vietnam War | Dispatches |
| Around 1800 a military leader named this helped knock out the French from Egypt & began building it into a modern nation | Muhamad Ali |
| this term for a parent who emphasizes discipline & achievement was popularized by Amy Chua's 2011 book | Tiger Mother |
| Tyler Joseph's band, twenty one pilots, derives its name from this playwright's "All My Sons" | Arthur Miller |
| This 3-named scientist formulated the 4 basic laws of electromagnetism, and when he created a laboratory at Cambridge he had Psalm 111:2 inscribed on the doors | James Clark Maxwell |
| A former northern province of South Africa was located "across" this largest tributary to the Orange River | Vaal (as in Transvaal) |
| SHAKESPEARE in a FEW WORDS: Dromio, Antipholus, Ephesus, mistaken identity, twins | Comedy of Errors |
| The Experimental College at this "O"hio school, the first coed university in the U.S., has offered classes on Dungeons & Dragons, Taiko Drumming, and Juggling | Oberlin |
| While its French name literally translates to "thousand sheets," it's just three layers of puff pastry alternating with two layers of cream that make up this dessert | mille-feuille |
| This lanthanide was discovered in 1803 and named after the first asteroid that was discovered two years prior | Cerium |
| English chemist William Wollaston named this transition metal after the "rose-like" color of its solutions | Rhodium |
| J.S. Bach spent the last 27 years of his life in this city, Saxony's largest | Leipzig (Saxony (Sachsen) is a federal state in eastern Germany, bordering Poland to the east and the Czech Republic to the south, known for its rich history, culture (Bach, Wagner), medieval cities like the capital Dresden, and beautiful Ore mountains |
| The legendary Gordian Knot is named after the capital of this ancient kingdom | Phrigia |
| This official represents the federal government in cases before the Supreme Court | Solicitor General |
| From the French for "superior strength," this common contract clause frees both parties from obligation in extraordinary circumstances | Force Majeure |
| Known for his daring battlefield exploits, his legacy includes a major midwestern county named for him, as well as a famous fictional descendant from the world of comic books | Mad Anthony Wayne |
| A coup de main is a bold, sudden attack, like this "Mad" general's 1779 assault on British forces over the Hudson | Mad Anthony Wayne (also cues Fort Defiance) |
| Golden Boy is a drama by this playwright who also was part of the Group Theater | Odets (also wrote Awake and Sing!)... Golden Boy had Sammy Davis Jr. in it |
| . He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums that are considered one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century | Herge |
| Second brightest star in the sky | Canopus (Sirius is first... the dog star) |
| "I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this; killing myself, to die upon a kiss" are famous last words in this tragedy | Othello |
| Another name for Saint Andrew's Cross is this 7-letter word starting with s | Saltire |
| The sisserou parrot can only be found on this island, hence why it made its way on the national flag, one of the only ones with purple | Dominica |
| THIS CURRENT ARGENTINIAN PRESIDENT HAS ALREADY DECLARED HIS INTENTION TO RUN IN THE ELECTION SET FOR OCTOBER 24 | Javier Milei |
| The views are both mythic & mythical on the ferry from Paros to this, the largest Cyclades island, where some say Zeus was raised | Naxos |
| Lying between Italy's "heel" & "toe", the Gulf of Taranto is an inlet of this sea named for a nymph of Greek mythology | Ionian |
| In 1864 Britain ceded to the Greeks these islands off Greece's West Coast that bespangle the sea of the same name | Ionian on the west and named for a nymph Corfu is there |
| One of the oldest sources of Bronze Age culture was this island group between Attica & Crete | Cyclades (encricling islands) in the Aegean sea between Crete and Greece (south east towards Turkey but in the middle of that gulf) |
| I gotta have my trail mix, aka GORP, "good ol"' these 2 items | Raisins and Peanuts |
| The joker's (sometimes) wild in this type of poker that's an adaptation of an Asian domino game | Pai Gow |
| Peter Luger Steak House is famed for this cut; a N.Y. strip is on one side of its T-bone shape & a filet mignon is on the other | Porterhouse |
| The second-largest Jovian moon "bears" the name of this mountain nymph who was turned into an ursine by Hera | Callisto (Jupiter moon's in order of size are: Ganymede (largest in the solar system), followed by Callisto, Io, and Europa) |
| This Russian hero named for a victory at the Neva River also won a battle on frozen Lake Peipus, now shared by Russia & Estonia | Alexander Nevsky |
| a premier American sportscaster for NBC Sports (since 2016), best known as the lead play-by-play voice for Sunday Night Football and the primetime host for the Olympics. | Mike Tirico |
| American filmmaker renowned for directing Moonlight (2016), , he frequently explores the complexities of Black masculinity and life, notably in If Beale Street Could Talk (2018). | Berry Jenkins |
| is the opening line and a central, recurring question in Ayn Rand's 1957 novel *Atlas Shrugged*. | Who is John Galt? It is also a long speech he gives called "This is John Galt Speaking": |
| a popular, refreshing tequila-based cocktail from Mexico, traditionally made with tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda (like Squirt or Jarritos), served over ice in a salt-rimmed glass with a lime wedge | Paloma... dove |
| Rebecca Felton (1922) and Hattie Caraway (1932) were the first two women | Rebecca Felton (1922) and Hattie Caraway (Arkansas)( (1932) were the first two women to serve in the United States Senate. Felton was appointed for a single day, while Caraway became the first woman elected to the Senate, |
| Even the Industrial Workers of the World say theories on how they got this nickname are on shaky ground | Wobblies of IWW |
| Montero album | Lil Nas X |
| American filmmaker known for directing Fruitvale Station (), Creed (), Black Panther ()., often collaborating with actor Michael also founded Proximity Media and directed the 2025 thriller Sinners. | Coogler |
| Quad God | Ilia Malinin, nicknamed the "Quad God," |
| Mount Shasta in California & Mount Rainier in Washington are the highest peaks in this range | Cascades |
| CALI $1600: At 14,495 feet, this peak is California's highest point | Mt Whitney |
| this spa town, a big name in bottled water, is on the French shore of Lake Geneva | Evian |
| Last name of Louis-Eugene, who sold his French thermal spring with naturally carbonated water in 1903 | Perrier |
| co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966 | Betty Friedan |
| Scottish-American naturalist and author, founded the Sierra Club in San Francisco on May 28, 1892, to protect the Sierra Nevada mountains. | John Muir |
| lewis carroll real name | Charles Dodgson |
| This "Learned" judge, who produced over 2,000 influential opinions, joined the court of appeals in 1924 | Learned Hand |
| This detective is instructed in "The Long Goodbye" that a real gimlet is "half gin & half Rose's lime juice & nothing else" | Marlowe (book by Raymond Chandler) |
| E. M. Forster's first novel, named after Pope line | Where Angels Fear to Tread (from Where Fools Rush in) |
| An Australian sporting hero, Sir Donald Bradman is the only Aussie knighted for his services to this sport | Cricket |
| The Music And The Mirror" & "One" SONGS from a groundbreaking 1975 musical conceived by Michael Bennett, with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, focusing on the lives and stories of Broadway dancers auditioning | Chorus Line |
| is a 1945 musical based on the play Liliom, set in a Maine coastal town where barker Billy Bigelow and millworker Julie Jordan fall in love, leading to tragedy and a chance for redemption. | Carousel |
| a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth. It is based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. story of how three friends' lives and friendship devolve over the course of 20 years; | Merrily We Roll Along |
| Kim Kardashian's latest major acting role is in the Hulu legal drama "All's Fair," which premiered in November 2025, where she stars as a divorce lawyer alongside Sarah Paulson, Glenn Close, and Niecy Nash-Betts, | All's Fair |
| an English actor best known for his breakout role as Lord Anthony Bridgerton in the Netflix series Bridgerton. Sexiest man alive Company, as well as roles in Fellow Travelers, Wicked ( | Jonathan Bailey |
| known for unifying Japan under a centralized feudal government, bringing over 250 years of peace (Edo Period), enforcing strict social hierarchies (samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants) | Tokiugawa Shogun |
| "Mule Variations" won a Folk Album Grammy for this gravel-voiced singer who also acted in "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" | Tom Waits |
| From the Latin for "patcher" or "mender", it refers to tailors or their work | Sartorial |
| Vermeer famous painting at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands | Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| In this best-known and largest painting, Georges Seurat depicted people from different social classes strolling and relaxing in a park just west of Paris. | A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (not to be confused with Sunday in the Park with George is a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim (music/lyrics) and James Lapine (book) |
| In 1898 the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn got this new member, the Brit who became the face of magick & occultism | Crowley English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, novelist, mountaineer, and painter. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century |
| Turn over a painting & you might find labels, notes or even a signature on this side, a 5-letter word from Latin for "to turn" | Verso |
| s, p, d & f are used to designate the shapes of these, the regions around an atom's nucleus where its electrons tend to be found | Orbitals |
| Hemingway ate his last meal on July 1, 1961 at Michel's Christiania Restaurant, still a hangout for skiers in this Idaho city | Ketchum |
| She was the third woman to win a Nobel prize in chemistry in 1964 ; she was married to a famous historian | Hodkin |
| First movie line: "I believe in America. America has made my fortune" | Godfather |
| "a formal argument in logic that is formed by two statements and a conclusion which must be true if the two statements are true....// An example is “All men are mortal; no gods are mortal; therefore no men are gods.” " | Syllogism |
| Literally "guilty mind", this phrase is heard in courtrooms regarding a defendant's criminal intent | Mens Rea |
| Usually shortened to initials, it's the Latin phrase used in academia as a stand-in for one's resume | CV (Curriculum Vitae) |
| central female protagonist in Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago and David Lean's 1965 film adaptation, famously portrayed by | Lara and Julie Christie |
| A Southern California theme park sprang from a farm that grew this sweet but tangy berry named for its developer | Boysenberry (Knott's Berry farm came from guy named Boysen).... Knott was also a guy. A Boysenberry is a blackberry, a dewberry, and a logan berry |
| "V.C." stands for several "very cool" things, like venture capitalism, Vichy Charles-de-Gaulle, and this two-word term referring to a process wherein software is developed through supplying an LLM with natural language instruction. | Vibe Coding |
| This purportedly "human"-centric AI company spun off from OpenAI by Daniela & Dario Amodei is responsible for the development of the Claude LLM. | Anthropic |
| Following a Dec. 2025 $1 billion agreement between Disney and OpenAI, users of this text-to-video AI model can make works of a copyrighted character that shares its name with the service. | Sora |
| Helmed by Softbank's Masayoshi Son, in partnership with OpenAI and Oracle, this ongoing $500 billion dollar AI infrastructure project began with the establishment of data centers in Texas; name also a movie... | Stargate |
| 1. Microsoft AI name 2. Google AI name | 1. Copilot and Gemini |
| Hot tip: this state was the source for pepper seeds used by the McIlhennys in hot sauce | Tabasco |
| Town in Jalisco gives its name to this drink | Tequila |
| are seven well-known complex mathematical problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. | Millenium Prize Problems |
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